Monday, January 17, 2011

Urban Lattice Complete

This was one of those quilts that drove me crazy when I was trying to decide on a layout. I must have spent a combined total of several hours just moving blocks around on my design wall. And wouldn't you know it, once I finally settled on a layout I liked, I got it mixed up when I sewed the blocks together. Cara suggested a great method for labeling them to keep this from happening, but did I follow that? Of course not. I wanted to tear the paper off before I decided on a layout, because the blocks wouldn't stick to my design wall with the paper still on them. Then I was too lazy to get out the masking tape. And I really didn't think it was necessary anyway, since it's all of about three feet from my design wall to my machine. How could they get mixed up from there to here? Apparently, they could. And now it's making me crazy enough that I'm actually thinking of trying to un-sew one particular block and put in something different. We'll see how motivated I am to do that a few days from now.

But aside from those few blocks sticking in my craw, I really am loving this quilt and couldn't be happier with it. It's probably one of my favorite quilts I've done so far. Thank you, Cara, for a wonderful quilt-along. It will pain me to give this one away.And now all I have to do is piece together a couple of backs, and this and its boy counterpart, my Modern Meadow baby quilt, are ready to be quilted. Any thoughts for some cool backs, for either of these quilts? And I'm linking up to Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story and Sew Modern Monday at Canoe Ridge Creations—head over there to see more modern sewing projects.

Lee, I think your quilt is beautiful. For the life of me, can't figure out which blocks you'd want to unsew. :-) We are always our worst critics, aren't we? I love it! Thanks for sharing. http://scantquarterinch.blogspot.com/

I stayed up until midnight last night to get all the blocks done, and beat the boy up this morning to lay them out on the floor... but he woke up and likes to destroy whatever is on the floor, so I was rushed, and I'm not sure I'll be really happy with my lay-out... so I understand your pain. ;)

We are always our own worst critic! I made a fleece rag quilt for my mom who is a quilter. It was my first attempt at sewing. There were so many things I wanted to change, but my mom loved it. Yes, she was my mom, but she said it was perfect for her. Good thing too cause I wouldn't have kept it. Sometimes we have to settle of good instead of great. =)

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